Time to break out your newest gifs, or maybe just your favorites. It’s story time boys and girls. I’ll start the story and you all build on it. Make it as cheesy and corny as you wish, we need something to get us through our last day of work before the weekend. Don’t be shy, join in! Continue reading
Teh Interwebz
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We can probably all agree that one of the biggest timesucks and patently infuriating things about any job would be dealing with idiots. Continue reading
In the old days (from about the early-mid-1800s until the past 2 or 3 years) book publishing usually worked like this: the author wrote a book, and sent the manuscript to a commercial publisher, Random House, Faber and Faber, Akashic, there are thousands of them world-wide. The publisher employs professional editors to read the manuscripts and select (‘acquire’ is the usual verb used) ones with commercial possibilities. The author is then assigned an editor to work with to prepare the manuscript for publication. Continue reading
Many of us have experienced it. The nudger, the noser, the crafty jerk who eventually cuts you off. Continue reading
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you are aware that Chik-fil-A has come under fire for their long-standing support (in the form of monetary donations) of anti-LGBTQ organizations. A few days ago, the Jim Henson Company posted a note on their Facebook page that read as follows: Continue reading
In these modern times there are few things as important to political candidates as getting people to their websites. The (re)-election website is the hub for the candidate’s views, donations, campaign stops and email list subscription. Let’s look at the search results and HTML tuning that each site has. Continue reading
Today Comcast announced a doubling of network speeds for the same monthly fee in select markets. If you live in one of those markets here are the easy steps to make sure you activate and verify the faster speeds. Continue reading
Shell Oil has a meme generator. Instead of fundie mom and ceiling cat, this one has pictures of arctic landscapes and wildlife. Shell wanted people to create their own slogans for the pictures, and people could vote on them. The winner gets posted on billboards.
Oh, Shell. It’s sweet that you thought you could trust the Internet. It’s also really dumb. Really, really, really, really REALLY dumb.
Considering that more than half of all Americans are using social media in some form, though many of them badly (I’m looking at you, Rep. Dan Gordon) there’s clearly a temptation to say that companies should be doing all they can to reach out to customers using the various channels. At least, that’s the position of tech wonder-boy Josh James in his guest post on Forbes.com this week. Continue reading